Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Empire's late famed pioneer Transatlantic Flier Captain Sir John Alcock, was bound last March from Kisumu to Cairo, on the South Africa-to-England run. Young Alcock was rocketing along over the jungle at 200 m.p.h. when he found he was running out of fuel. Instead of flying over Juba, he was 150 miles to the southeast. The Dangu River, swarming with hippos, crocodiles and water snakes, hedged by high and slippery banks, yawned beneath...
...their bosses split piston rings for their noses, rivets for their ears. Duralumin rings for bracelets. Soon blacks and whites were so friendly that each Briton had a nickname in native dialect. Radioman James Wycherley was named "King of the white men" because he sat at his dials instead of working...
Because he had issued no warnings at the time of the St. Louis affair, Judge Landis exacted no further penalties against Detroit, although fines of from $500 to $1,000 for each offense were in order, and banishment of Detroit's General Manager Jack Zeller possible. Instead, Baseball's Landis laid down the laws of farming, for every manager in the land, and he issued fair warning. For farm violations hereafter: no mercy...
...superior expression on the face of the bears was noticeable when the Federal Reserve Board reported that although its December index of production was higher than for any month in history (thanks mostly to the durable goods industries), January production, instead of rising, was slipping from the peak. This was a sure indication that its index for January would be down from December's (seasonally adjusted) level...
...seagoing merchant fleet will be obsolete (over 20 years old). To replace it the Maritime Commission's ten-year (1938-48) building program calls for 500 new ships, of which 38 have already left the ways. Whatever old bottoms can be sold at wartime (instead of scrap) prices will be just so much gravy for U. S. shipowners, will help pay for a fine new U. S. fleet...